Welcome, Amulet Beta Testers!
Here you'll find discussion of the latest Amulet Voice Remote beta software, as it moves towards general release. Please give us your feedback, bug reports, and comments on how you are getting on with beta testing, along with any feature requests you think may help improve the Amulet software.

Please only post here relating to issues with Amulet beta software releases; use the main forums for general discussion about Amulet.

We're interested in any feedback you may have (there is already some discussion in the Windows 8 support thread here).

At the risk of stating the obvious, you must have Media Center installed on Windows 8 before installing this release; it is not included in the base operating system but must be purchased separately from Microsoft.

New: Settings TV Guide page now allows monitoring of TV recordings to be turned off (can
reduce incidence of 0x046B failures on systems with a lot of TV activity)

New: configurable setting MyMoviesPlayAction controls how playback of MyMovies
titles is achieved. The default is MyMoviesPlayer, which uses the MyMovies internal
webservice to launch playback of selected titles; if this fails (e.g. due to
insufficient account credits), then playback is automatically started with the
Amulet player instead. Selecting MyMoviesDetails will launch the MyMovies app
with the selected movie's information displayed - you can then say OK if you want
to go ahead and play the movie. AmuletPlayer always uses the built-in Amulet player,
which can be a little faster if you use MyMovies but do not have 2500 points on your
account (i.e. the MyMovies player will always fail). Note that the Amulet player does
not natively support Blu-ray or HD-DVD content.

The x64 version states "can only be installed on windows 7" when run under 8.1

Hi,

This appears to be the result of an over-zealous version check. It will be fixed for the next release, but in the meantime, the easiest work-around is to select properties for the installer and set the Compatibility mode to Windows 7. Then the installer should run fine.

The only option available in 8.1 is "run as previous version", which doesn't work, neither does running as admin or running the compatability wizard which is supposed to disable version check but that fails also. I'll wait for a new version to be released